Inclusive Excellence and Global Inquiry Course Development and Approval

Note: This policy was adopted on under the temporary / emergency policymaking provisions of the University's Policy on Policies on August 20, 2024, and will revert on December 18, 2024 (unless a final policy action is approved or the duration is extended).

Information about this policy change, and any proposals for further policymaking, can be accessed at the University Policy website. Students and employees may submit comments on those proposals through the Proposed Policy Change Comment Form, which is accessible through the site.

Inclusive excellence is a nationally recognized set of practices to promote equity, support diversity, practice inclusion, and free exchange of ideas. Courses in the Wright State Core that have this designation align with the diversity, equity, and inclusion attribute of Ohio Transfer 36 and have learning outcomes conforming to those standards.

As a result of their learning experience, students successfully completing an IE-designated course can:

• Describe identity as multifaceted and constituting multiple categories of difference such as race, color, language, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic status, and intersectionality as operating by individual and group.
• Describe how cultures (including their own) are shaped by the intersections of a variety of factors such as race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, ethnicity, nationality, and/or other socially constructed categories of difference.
• Recognize the complex elements of cultural biases on a global scale by identifying historic, economic, political, and/or social factors, such as ethnocentrism, colonialism, slavery, democracy, and imperialism.
• Recognize how sociocultural status and access to (or distribution of) resources are informed by cultural practices within historical, social, cultural, and economic systems.

Additionally, students will be able to accomplish at least one of the two outcomes below:

• Articulate the meaning of empathy and its role in strengthening civic responsibilities and reducing the negative impact of societal stereotypes.
• Demonstrate empathy by successfully interpreting intercultural experiences from one’s own and others’ worldview.

Global Inquiry employs multidisciplinary humanities- or social science-based approaches to examine topics that reach beyond the United States. Courses in the Wright State Core with this designation emphasize our connectedness to the world that we live in, helping students relate what they have learned to contemporary global affairs and recognize their place among the diversity of people who inhabit our world.

As a result of their learning experience, students successfully completing a GI-designated course can:

• Describe the global processes that have shaped historically attested societies and/or contemporary global trends, patterns, and processes and how they relate to specific regions and issues.
• Engage in historical and/or cross-cultural inquiry, analysis, and critiques of historical, social, political, economic, and aesthetic diversity around the globe.
• Integrate comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and multi-cultural worldviews and critical thinking frameworks to analyze crucial global issues.
• Gain the intellectual tools, skills, and knowledge to be engaged and knowledgeable citizens in a rapidly changing world.

The Wright State electronic curriculum review process will be used to apply for the IE or GI designation to be attributed to Wright State Core courses. Across course prefixes, faculty seeking IE or GI designations for their courses will be required to explain (a) how the instructional strategies or academic assignments (readings, writings, exams, presentations, reflection activities, projects, etc.) will be connected to each of the required outcomes; and (b) how the accomplishment of each of the outcomes will be assessed. The learning outcomes for either attribute should be included in the syllabus of any approved course. Proposals will be reviewed by the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.